Delusion

Part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival

Sep 21—25 & Sep 28—30; Oct 1 & 2, 2010, 7:30pm
Sep 26 & Oct 3, 2010, 3pm

NY Premiere

By Laurie Anderson

"Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance—a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace." —Rolling Stone

A pioneering storyteller whose ever-intriguing convergence of technology, violin, visuals, and voice creates spellbinding tales, Laurie Anderson (The End of the Moon, 2005 Spring Season; Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, 1999 Next Wave) opens the Next Wave Festival with Delusion. A phantasmagoric world made up of short plays, her latest work is activated by brooding, deeply affecting music redolent with Tibetan temple horns and Arabic strings, performed by Anderson on electronically enhanced violin with supporting virtuoso musicians. A simultaneously contemplative and whimsical epic about longing, identity, and memory, Delusion invokes both humor and terror, conjuring up elves, mysteries, ghost ships, and dead relatives to spin poetic stories and imagery into gold.

BAM Harvey Theater
90min, no intermission
Tickets: $20, 35, 45, 60

Commissioned by VANCOUVER 2010 CULTURAL OLYMPIAD, Vancouver; BARBICANBITE10, London.

With additional support from BAM for the 2010 Next Wave Festival; Cal Performances UC Berkeley; Stanford Lively Arts, Stanford University, generously supported by Sarah Ratchye and Ed Frank.

Additional production support and residency provided by the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Renssalaer.